Melinda Mullins is an American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 film

Film

A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

, television

Television

Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...

 and theatre

Theatre

Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...

 actress.

Early life and education

She was born in Clanton

Clanton, Alabama

Clanton is a city in Chilton County, Alabama, United States. It is part of the Birmingham–Hoover–Cullman Combined Statistical Area. At the 2000 census the population was 7,800. The city is the county seat of Chilton County.-History:...

, Alabama

Alabama

Alabama is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States. It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west. Alabama ranks 30th in total land area and ranks second in the size of its inland...

.

Mullins received her Bachelor of Arts

Bachelor of Arts

A Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both...

 degree in the romance languages

Romance languages

The Romance languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family, more precisely of the Italic languages subfamily, comprising all the languages that descend from Vulgar Latin, the language of ancient Rome...

 from Mount Holyoke College

Mount Holyoke College

Mount Holyoke College is a liberal arts college for women in South Hadley, Massachusetts. It was the first member of the Seven Sisters colleges, and served as a model for some of the others...

 in South Hadley

South Hadley, Massachusetts

South Hadley is a town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 17,514 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Springfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area....

, Massachusetts

Massachusetts

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010...

, in 1979. She also studied at the Juilliard School

Juilliard School

The Juilliard School, located at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City, United States, is a performing arts conservatory which was established in 1905...

 in New York City

New York City

New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

, New York

New York

New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

, and the Conservatoire National Supérieur d'Art Dramatique

CNSAD

The Conservatoire National Supérieur d'Art Dramatique is France's national drama academy in Paris...

 in Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

, France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

.

She also took the Alan Weiss Broadcasting Course and Michael Shurtleff's Scene Study and Audition Class.

Career

She has appeared in numerous roles in film, television and on the Broadway stage

Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...

.

While appearing in several TV series, such as M*A*S*H or Law & Order

Law & Order

Law & Order is an American police procedural and legal drama television series, created by Dick Wolf and part of the Law & Order franchise. It aired on NBC, and in syndication on various cable networks. Law & Order premiered on September 13, 1990, and completed its 20th and final season on May 24,...

, Mullins may be best known for her role as former Broadway leading lady Hilary Booth in Rupert Holmes' Remember WENN

Remember WENN

Remember WENN is a comedy-drama television series that aired from 1996 to 1998 on the cable channel American Movie Classics. Created and written by Rupert Holmes and set at the fictional Pittsburgh radio station WENN in the early 1940s, it depicted events in the personal and professional lives of...

.

She also writes screenplays and short stories.

Filmography

• 1982 - M*A*S*H (Martine LeClerc)
• 1987 - Crossbow
  Crossbow
  A crossbow is a weapon consisting of a bow mounted on a stock that shoots projectiles, often called bolts or quarrels. The medieval crossbow was called by many names, most of which derived from the word ballista, a torsion engine resembling a crossbow in appearance.Historically, crossbows played a...
  
   (Blade)
• 1989 - Prisoners of Inertia (Charlotte)
• 1991 - What About Bob?
  What About Bob?
  What About Bob? is a 1991 comedy film directed by Frank Oz, and starring Bill Murray and Richard Dreyfuss. Murray plays Bob Wiley, a multiphobic psychiatric patient who follows his successful and egotistical psychiatrist Dr. Leo Marvin on vacation...
  
   (Marie Grady)
• 1992 - Law and Order (Forensics Technician)
• 1993 - Dennis the Menace
  Dennis the Menace (film)
  Dennis the Menace is a 1993 live-action American family film based on the Hank Ketcham comic strip of the same name....
  
   (Andrea)
• 1995 - Law and Order (Chris Chappel)
• 1996 - Rescuing Desire (Toni)
• 1996-98 - Remember WENN
  Remember WENN
  Remember WENN is a comedy-drama television series that aired from 1996 to 1998 on the cable channel American Movie Classics. Created and written by Rupert Holmes and set at the fictional Pittsburgh radio station WENN in the early 1940s, it depicted events in the personal and professional lives of...
  
   (Hilary Booth)

Broadway

• Mastergate (Merry Chase)
• Serious Money (Scilla)
• Sherlock's Last Case (Liza/Damion)

Off-Broadway and Regional

• Escape from Happiness (Elizabeth)
• Titus Andronicus (Tamora)
• Macbeth (Lady Macbeth)
• Adoining Trances (C. McCullers)
• Measure for Measure (Isabella)
• Midsummer Night's Dream (Titania/Hippolyta)
• Twelfth Night (Olivia)
• The Play's the Thing (Mona)
• Wild Oats (Honest Bob)
• Amerika (Chorus)

Awards and nominations

• 1986 - B.H. Barry
  B.H. Barry
  B.H. Barry is an English fight director and choreographer in theater, film, television, opera and ballet. He has been awarded both a Drama Desk and an Obie Award for Sustained and Consistent Excellence in Stage Combat...
  
   Stagefighting Prize
• 1996 - Screen Actors Guild Award Nomination
• 1999 - New York Festival Award: Outstanding Performance in a Comedy Series
• 1999 - Chicago International Television Festival Outstanding Achievement in Acting

External links

• melindamullins.com, Melinda Mullins official website